Used in a Sentence

duck-billed

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for duck-billed.

Editorial note

Perhaps not everyone realizes that every year thousands (millions?) of people go out to shoot dinosaurs, often of the duck-billed variety.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Especially of animal species, having facial features resembling the bill of a duck.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of duck-billed gathered in one view.

adjective

Especially of animal species, having facial features resembling the bill of a duck.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for duck-billed.

adjective

Especially of animal species, having facial features resembling the bill of a duck.

Example sentences

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Perhaps not everyone realizes that every year thousands (millions?) of people go out to shoot dinosaurs, often of the duck-billed variety.

2

One of the interesting things about this fish is how it was represented like a duck-billed flathead fish before this videos.

3

Except for those duck-billed, beaver looking mother-fuckers with their poisonous spurs everywhere...

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If Sharepoint was an animal it would be a Duck-billed Platypus.

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I'd be surprised if a duck-billed tardigrade didn't write the works of Shakespeare, unabridged, before I was able to do this.

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NoSQL is the duck-billed platypus in the evolution of databases.

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> researchers identified preserved collagen remnants in the hip bone of an Edmontosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur.

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Which is one reason we are not welcoming our duck-billed platypus overlords.

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Of course from the present day perspective this all looks very odd, but it came about through a series of quite logical steps, like how you make a Duck-Billed Platypus..

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I thought the egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, electrorecepting, venomous platypus was the strangest mammal.

Quote examples

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You ask "The duck-billed platypus is my favorite mammal!

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A much better way is to use interfaces for most things: use IMammal then override "procreate" so you can account for specie extrema like the duck-billed platypus class, which is a mammal that lays eggs.

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The Berkeley press release [1] says Smit mentionsed the "buried body of a Triceratops and a duck-billed hadrosaur", although it doesn't go into detail about condition or say whether the hadrosaur is complete or fragmentary (the Triceratops is a "partial carcass").

Proper noun examples

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Duck-billed platypus is an excellent example, as well as the class of instances: cryptids.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use duck-billed in a sentence?

Perhaps not everyone realizes that every year thousands (millions?) of people go out to shoot dinosaurs, often of the duck-billed variety.

What does duck-billed mean?

Especially of animal species, having facial features resembling the bill of a duck.

What part of speech is duck-billed?

duck-billed is commonly used as adjective.